Central Intelligence Agency

Walter Ruiz offered a glimpse into a place most people have never seen: the controversial U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay. Roughly 75 people, mostly current and aspiring criminal defense attorneys, gathered in Orlando on Wednesday for Ruiz, who is defending one of the five men accused in the Sept. 11 attacks. Ruiz, a former Orlando resident, is a reservist commander with the U.S. Navy and the lead attorney representing CIA captive Mustafa al Hawsawi, who has been held at Guantánamo since 2006. Before then, Hawsawi had been held at various "black sites" in unknown countries since his capture in Pakistan in 2003. Ruiz couldn't discuss many of the details,...

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